The pro-family case for walkability

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That’s a shame, because walkability should be a conservative concern. Specifically, conservatives ought to help parents have more kids and help kids have lower-tech childhoods with more freedom. Neighborhoods where kids can walk around are neighborhoods where families will flourish and civil society will blossom.

On the flipside, those who work on walkability ought to think more about children and parents. You could spend all day reading urbanism and walkability literature and come across a hundred mentions of commuting to work or walking to a cocktail bar without ever seeing the word “child.”

We need to fix these problems.

America has an epidemic of childhood anxiety